Tour talk -- Spoiler alert

[Norse]

I think Jens Voight is absolutely fabulous. Watching him is pure inspiration. I felt so bad for Cadel yesterday ... and more mountains to come....

[XMcShiftersonX]

Oh man I'm so glad a Portuguese guy won today!! Go Paulinho!! I'm Portuguese and I feel like I barely ever see any Portuguese cyclists, so this is really cool

[redrhodie]

Oh man I'm so glad a Portuguese guy won today!! Go Paulinho!! I'm Portuguese and I feel like I barely ever see any Portuguese cyclists, so this is really cool

Belarusian here (well, 1/2) who is equally bummed!

[tulip]

My bit-o-Portuguese pride swelled up yesterday, too. But given that I'm a French citizen and it was the 14 juillet, I was a bit bummed that a French rider didn't win.

[Zen]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oth...in-sprint.html

When I saw that I was shocked. Then I thought it must be the camera angle; they were sprinting so hard and wobbling side to side.
But no.

What was he thinking?

[ny biker]

This is interesting, about David Millar. He rode most of the last big mountain stage alone and in pain, but he didn't want to quit even if he missed the time cut.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mill...n-through-pain

I like his comment about breaking the big climb into 5k segments. That's a good technique when you're suffering and have a long way to go -- although my segments tend to be much shorter, i.e., to the next telephone poll. But still, it can help you get to the end.

[ny biker]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oth...in-sprint.html

When I saw that I was shocked. Then I thought it must be the camera angle; they were sprinting so hard and wobbling side to side.
But no.

What was he thinking?

I haven't seen the footage yet but on the velonews live coverage, Charles Pelkey gave Renshaw the "wanker of the day" award for that headbutt. And Davis Phinney also thought it was DQ-worthy.

I'm glad no one crashed as a result.

[Zen]

I'm glad no one crashed as a result.

Really.
That was incredibly dangerous.

[arielmoon]

I saw the head butts when watching live but I missed Renshaw cutting Tyler off. No wonder he was so ticked off.

[redrhodie]

The aftermath interviews were great. All the commentators were so revved up, I was expecting the guys would be livid, but no. Julian Dean was completely calm and just shrugged it off to "that's sprinting". It was about as upset as I've ever seen Farrar, but he was still not throwing wheels.

ETA: Renshaw's been thrown out.